On Vacation...

[supercoolbandgeek]

Any stories of what you've found in your tank after a vacation? Or just some general advice on the topic to others?

-When I got back from vacation one time, there was a mass of snails around the feeder thing, and (as far as I could tell) a parasite thing. (i haven't seen it since--- i put stuff in the water). Later on, though, when I was cleaning out the filter, there was a slug thing. Pretty gross. I squashed it. (also haven't seen another one of them).  

[SquishyAngeh]

hm...I have not really gone on too many vacations, dont know what all happened then, but I came back from a day out to find that my Ram is attacking my betta....I think my Ram is sexist or something cause it is a female and beats up in my male swordtail and betta.. xp  

[Majah]

Whenever I go out on a trip, I always loose a fish or two when I get back. The worse was the most recent one... crying  

[SquishyAngeh]

I know, I feel so bad for you, is it getting better yet or are you still loosing them sad  

[^^Psycha^^]

Let someone take care of them iff you are gonna leva for 2 weeks or more or they will all be death when yu come  

[SquishyAngeh]

yeah, I myself wanna go on a vacation but I dont know if I can fully trust those vacation food thingies.....and since I have enough fish I might have to get 2 of those things  

[supercoolbandgeek]

i've used the vacation food things. we were only gone for a week, though, so it wasn't that bad. I'm not sure how much of the food my fish actually got, though, because when I came back there was a mass of snails eating it. bottom line- if you don't have snails and it's only a week, go ahead. i'll be gone for a few weeks over july 4th, and i'm going to ask a neighbor to take care of the fish for me.  

[Kansai_Gal]

Solid green alage bloom.

Me: What did you do to my tank?
Mom: Nothing!
Me: Did you turn of the light?
Mom: No!

crying  

[Majah]

Kansai_Gal

Solid green alage bloom.

Me: What did you do to my tank?
Mom: Nothing!
Me: Did you turn of the light?
Mom: No!

crying

Lolz! lol  

[supercoolbandgeek]

Yeah... I just got back from a 10 day vacation. The feeder block worked fine. All my fish are alive and well... except that one has completely vanished. It was my male Platty, and it's nowhere to be found. It's weird.  

[Thanks_For_All_The_Fish]

your fish vanished? Wierd......maybe you should either look compleatly around your tank....or question any other pets you have that might be fishing behind your back, cats are very good at it, we had a cat once who drank from our tanks and we caught him drinking the fish...I dont think he ment to eat them but he did not exactly spit them out either sweatdrop  

[supercoolbandgeek]

The thing is that I don't have any other pets, and I checked as best i could around the tank. I'm beginning to suspect that the other fish ate him or something like that.  

[Thanks_For_All_The_Fish]

I went on vacation for like 3 days last week, and I did have a vacation feeder in there, but when I came back they were all thin and nerotic looking, it did not look like they even ate anything  

[Sugar Slave]

I have used the feeders with no problem but I am now useing a timed feeder so that I don't have to worry about it. This vactaion I had no dead fish but alot of babies on my return home.